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Saturday’s Health Snippet: One Simple Way to De-Frazzle

January 7, 2012 By Sandra Heska King

“Stop! Back up!” The car skidded to a stop in the dirt. Dennis backed up, and I jumped out, camera in hand. He patiently (I think) followed me down the long drive, stopped and waited while I tiptoed through mud and scrambled over briars seeking beauty in the broken and the barren and the brown. […]

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Saturday Snaps: Some Seasonal Favs From 2011

December 31, 2011 By Sandra Heska King

WINTER SPRING SUMMER FALL Love to you,

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Saturday Snaps: Jerry the Red-Nosed-Reindeer

December 17, 2011 By Sandra Heska King

The deer bounded away. “I’ll bet Dad’s coming back from his walk,” I say. I watch him through the window. He plops down on the bench. He has branches in his hands. “What is he doing?” Tears pool in my eyes. “Is he crying? Praying?”  Not quite. He seems to always miss the deer in […]

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Saturday Snaps: Remembering

December 3, 2011 By Sandra Heska King

I messed up. I meant to take more photos. Especially of people. Especially of relatives and friends who came from far and not often seen. But I got sidetracked, and this is all I’ve got.  Sigh. They call it a Garden of Serenity arrangement. We tweaked it with the angel. Baby Mom. Dad caught viewing […]

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Saturday Snaps: Cottage Window Views

November 19, 2011 By Sandra Heska King

On your feet now—applaud God! Bring a gift of laughter, sing yourselves into his presence. ~Psalm 100:1 (Message) Linking up with sweet Kelly. Follow the button for some amazing photos.

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Saturday Snaps ~ A Squirrel’s Heartbeat

October 15, 2011 By Sandra Heska King

  If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence. ~George Eliot, English Novelist, Pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans, 1819-1880, in Middlemarch

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Saturday Snaps: More From the Canyon

October 8, 2011 By Sandra Heska King

Just some quiet photos from Laity Lodge. Still in the stillness,

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Saturday Snaps: Gateway Arch

September 24, 2011 By Sandra Heska King

(The Gateway Arch, St. Louis, MO) I am the gate; whoever enters through me will be saved. They will come in and go out, and find pasture. ~John 10:9 (NIV)

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Saturday Snaps: The Praying Mantis

September 17, 2011 By Sandra Heska King

Glimpse the grin, green metal mug at masks the pseudo-saintly bug . . . And faintly whisper, Lord deliver us. From The Praying Mantis by Ogden Nash with photos by The Droid Lifting a prayer for you today, So this is my prayer: that your love will flourish and that you will not only love […]

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Saturday Snaps: Every Cloud a Flag

September 10, 2011 By Sandra Heska King

I’m thanking you, God, out in the streets, singing your praises in town and country. The deeper your love, the higher it goes; every cloud’s a flag to your faithfulness. ~Psalm 108:3-4 (Message)

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Happy first day of fall from my backyard to yours. Happy first day of fall from my backyard to yours.
Just another backyard photo… Just another backyard photo…
From my backyard tonight. From my backyard tonight.
Just another sunset. Just another sunset.
“I would like people to remember of me, how inex “I would like people to remember of me, how inexhaustible was her mindfulness.” ~ Mary Oliver in “ A Little Ado About This and That.”
Current situation. Current situation.
“This spark of life that wavest wings of gold” “This spark of life that wavest wings of gold” ~ Thomas Wentworth Higginson in “Ode to a Butterfly”
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We pulled all the milkweed because it just could not support all the caterpillars. They were eating it bare and most of them died because they ran out of food. This one butterfly found this one lone volunteer.
"I would feel more optimistic about a bright futur "I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority." ~ E.B. White (as quoted on today's page in my Franklin Planner)
"May you experience each day as a sacred gift wove "May you experience each day as a sacred gift woven around the heart of wonder." ~ John O'Donohue in "For Presence" from To Bless the Space Between Us
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Tri-colored heron stalking breakfast in my backyard.
“. . neighbor’s tree hangs heavy with mangoes “. .  neighbor’s tree hangs heavy with mangoes. They are moving in a week. They say a family from Belarus bought the house. I hope they don’t care much for mangoes.”
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“Beautiful Sweet Things” at https://sandraheskaking.substack.com/
"People do not grow old. When they cease to grow t "People do not grow old. When they cease to grow they become old.” ~ Emerson

It's been a while since I've written anything on my blog. Like 3 years. But I just wrote my first post on Substack. Come see?

https://sandraheskaking.substack.com/p/ten-years-ten-things
Spent a couple hours this morning with friends fro Spent a couple hours this morning with friends from @spanishriverchurch picking up beach trash. Little bits of colored and clear plastic, big bits of plastic, bottle caps, broken glass, strings, ropes, straws, socks, fast food containers, paper, cigarette holders and filters—and a couple unmentionables. Took extra care around the turtle nests. Last count was about 70 pounds, but there were also some bigger things like an abandoned chair and a plastic tent. And a big piece of burlap or something with a fishing lure and giant hook attached. D found a Macy’s gift card that he almost tossed in his bucket. But we brought it home to check the balance—$24.60! We should be able to turn that into something useful for someone. 😊
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Already dead, I am
living my afterlife
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in the form of a human.
~ Xueyan from Time Peels All to Original White

Thanks to @tspoetry for introducing me to this beautiful collection via an Every Day Poems selection.
The cats attacked the window all night. The dog wo The cats attacked the window all night. The dog woofed all night. This morning we discovered the would-be burglar imprisoned between the screen and the glass on our bedroom slider. 

When I stepped out to release it (no bail), I was surprised by this brief bit of backyard beauty.
For most of us, knowledge of our world comes large For most of us, knowledge of our world comes largely through sight, yet we look about with such unseeing eyes that we are partially blind. One way to open your eyes to unnoticed beauty is to ask yourself, "What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew I would never see it again?" ~ Rachel Carson in The Sense of Wonder
#prayformsu #spartanstrong #spartannurse #michigan #prayformsu #spartanstrong #spartannurse #michiganstateuniversity
Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good! His faith Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good! His faithful love endures forever. ~ Psalm 136:1
A tale of two iguanas... I did not see the iguana A tale of two iguanas... I did not see the iguana in the background until I downloaded the photos. That, I believe, is the one that got caught in one of the openings in the neighbor's chain link fence. We tried in several (safe) ways to dislodge it without luck and could think of no other option but to leave it. Somehow it apparently dislodged itself. We also believe this is the pair that was getting into another neighbor's garden. We haven't seen either one since the last cold snap, so we are wondering if they survived. 
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Thinking some may have tumbled from their perches last night. Pretty sure it will be raining iguanas tonight since we are under a frost advisory. It's cold. And windy.
Just sing... sing a song... Singing our way into Just sing... sing a song... 

Singing our way into the weekend.
"We don't just see. We learn to see." ~ Russ Ramse "We don't just see. We learn to see." ~ Russ Ramsey in Rembrandt is in the Wind
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